How to Install and Uninstall mame-data Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 02,2024

You can also install and uninstall the mame-data on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
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1. Install "mame-data" package

This tutorial shows how to install mame-data on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                mame-data
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "mame-data" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall mame-data on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                mame-data
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the mame-data package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: mame-data
Source: mame
Version: 0.251+dfsg.1-1
Installed-Size: 113718
Maintainer: Debian Games Team
Architecture: all
Replaces: mess-data (<< 0.162)
Breaks: mess-data (<< 0.162)
Description: Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) -- data files
Description-md5: 27aa8eeb29427781c6e9e72d51d2690d
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://mamedev.org/
Section: games
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/mame/mame-data_0.251+dfsg.1-1_all.deb
Size: 15848696
MD5sum: 37024ebaf2a7f5c872dfada73b1e882e
SHA256: 32de0cfe427b0d183b689b16afed8aad0e7afaf49f3a818ca2c676ca0d92f811